#WWII

Paul Poast

ProfPaulPoast

Happy (belated) 75th Birthday @UN (#UN75)!Actually, a correction: the United Nations is 78 years old...and it's birthday was not this past Saturday (Oct 24)[THREAD] To be clear: the "United Nations"

Porkchop Express

Porkchop_EXP

BREAKING: Frankfurt was already ugly before WWII.For that we have to thank the pioneer of “rational” and affordable construction - Ernst May. These housing blocks from 1928 are a typical

Natalia Antonova 🦉🕯

NataliaAntonova

Dear @sarahforpdx are you and your campaign fucking shitting me with this? Here's the thing, I fucking hate cancel culture. HAAAAAAAATE IT. But I also do not fucking understand how

Kate's Rangers

KatesRangers

*Thread* Today we continue our series on Strong Women of the Monarchy. Today is about our current reigning monarch Queen Elizabeth II. Born Princess Elizabeth on April 21, 1926 to

The Princess

HimjaParekh

WA Fwd For a small amount of perspective at this moment, *imagine you were born in 1900*. 1. When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your

Mother of Tanks ✨🎄✨

Mother_of_Tanks

How about a Tanks-giving Day thread? I was thinking about the things I am most thankful for and trying to incorporate that into something meaningful that I could share because,

Mary 😷😭🌶🖤

MHPoison1

Bear with me, please. This thread is about COVID-19. We talk of the Greatest Generation. I see the tributes to the men & women who sacrificed & fought & died

Matthew Yglesias

mattyglesias

Okun's ideas are absolutely not something that serious people should embrace, and I'm always glad to hear that they don't. But it's simply untrue that her work isn't widely used

Pen Griffey Jr.

britttbanks

PRUITT-IGOE HOUSING PROJECT, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI (1956–1976) Pruitt-Igoe was a public housing complex of 33 11-story buildings built after WWII. It began as a decent place to live + was

Angry Staff Officer

pptsapper

When I was 12, my dad called for me to come downstairs, which I did, to find a piglet in a box. Someone was getting rid of it & he

Robert McNees

mcnees

Let me tell you a short story about how much a physicist can learn using dimensional analysis and a few pictures of an atom bomb detonation.https://twitter.com/mcnees/status/1283765045395173379 During WWII a British

Dr. Caitlin Pandemic et Circenses Baird

bairdlet

When I was 11, I was trapped in a blizzard with 20 other people for three days. We ran out of food, and had to kill our (pet) chickens. It

Austin Duncan

AMDuncan0

While it makes clear choices and trade-offs, the design maintains the service’s noted versatility, a valued force design principle. Thus, this proposal is both strategy-driven and risk-informed.https://warontherocks.com/2020/04/building-a-marine-corp

Gregory Rambour

GregoryRambour

Savez Vous ?Connaissez vous les stations de métro fantôme ? #urbexVoici quelques une d'entre elles dans le mondeThread (1/10) Station Aldwych - Londres :Ouverte en 1907, fermée en 1940

Suzanne Zeedyk

suzannezeedyk

A THREAD weaving together coronavirus, crowded parks, class & attachment theory: Whn t Queen spoke in her message last night abt evacuation of children in WWII, I reached for one

Melissa Murray

ProfMMurray

Prince Philip has passed away at 99. In many ways he was a bridge from the Victorian/Edwardian eras to the modern age. He was born into the Greek royal family,